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Setting Up Your Career Portal

How to configure, brand, and launch your public career page, including custom domains, logos, and embed options.

Why It Matters

Your career portal is the public face of your hiring. It’s where candidates browse open roles, learn about your company, and submit applications. A well-configured portal makes a strong first impression and drives more qualified applicants into your pipeline.

Compare hosted and custom careers portals, including Fourthwall’s Next.js site and Kit’s starter.

How the Career Portal Works

Every Kit account gets a career portal at a URL based on your account subdomain:

https://startupkit.app/careers/your-subdomain

The portal lists all your published job postings. Candidates can search by title, filter by location or department, and click into any job to see the full description and apply.

Branding Your Portal

Your portal’s visual branding (logo, primary color, font, and light/dark theme) is managed account-wide at Account Settings > Branding. These settings apply across Kit, including your career portal. Kit supports several branding options:

Upload your company logo in SVG, PNG, or JPEG format. You can upload two variants:

  • Logo: Used on light backgrounds
  • Logo (Dark): Used on dark backgrounds (optional; falls back to the main logo if not set)

Primary Color

Set a hex color (e.g. #111827) for buttons, links, and accent elements. Kit automatically calculates accessible contrast colors for text on buttons. Use a dark, saturated color for best results.

Font

Choose a custom Google Font family for your portal’s body text. Leave blank to use the default system font (Inter). The font selector shows a preview of each option.

To use your own typeface instead of a Google Font, upload a custom font file (WOFF2 format) and Kit will use it across your portal.

Light/Dark Mode

Choose between a light or dark theme. This sets the background, text colors, and card styling.

Portal Settings

Navigate to Hiring > Settings > Career Portal to configure portal-specific options. This page includes a live preview of both light and dark modes so you can see how your branding looks before saving.

Careers Site

Choose Kit career portal to keep your careers homepage on Kit, or Redirect to an external careers site to use a site your team hosts. Enter an HTTPS homepage URL on a verified company domain. A Kit-hosted portal cannot be the redirect destination.

If your external site also serves job descriptions, enable Show job pages on your external careers site. The site must serve each job at /jobs/{public_token} below the homepage URL: https://example.com/careers means https://example.com/careers/jobs/{public_token}. The Next.js template follows this convention. See the external job-page contract before enabling it.

Public job links, including links already shared and job-board links, follow this setting. With the option enabled, they redirect to the matching external job page; with it disabled, they show Kit’s job page. Add destination=kit to explicitly open the Kit job page. No job-board URL resubmission is needed when you switch the option. Kit application links use the stable /{public_token}/apply route and always stay on Kit, including links from boards with an application URL only, such as OneEmployer.

Application forms, talent pool, candidate sign-in, embeds, feeds, and APIs continue to run on Kit. Your custom site can also use the public API to handle applications, as the Next.js template does.

Logo Display Mode

Control how your logo appears in the portal header:

Mode What Shows
Branded Logo + your company name
Logo Only Logo without text
Brandless No logo or company name, minimal header

Languages

Choose which languages your portal supports and set the default language. Candidates can switch between enabled languages from the portal.

Allowed Origins

By default, any website is allowed to embed (frame) your career portal. To lock this down, list the origins (domains) permitted to frame it. Once you add one or more origins, only those hosts can embed the portal and every other site is blocked. Leaving the list empty keeps embedding unrestricted, so add your own domains here as a security hardening step if you only embed the portal on sites you control.

Custom Domains

By default, your career portal is accessible at your app’s domain with your subdomain slug. If your account has a custom domain configured (e.g. careers.yourcompany.com), the career portal resolves there automatically, with no path prefix.

Custom domains make your career page feel like a native part of your website. See Custom Domains for setup instructions.

Your Portal URL

Your career portal URL is always available at the top of any published job posting. You can also construct it manually:

https://yourapp.com/careers/{your-subdomain}

Share this URL on your website, social media profiles, and job boards to drive candidates directly to your portal.

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